1939_05 The Daily Collegian May 1939

              A college instructor was mildly shocked in
dass saxx'ently when students revealed that U
from  permitting their college education  to h
liberal, they were actually and brazonly
along in the three narrow grooves created by
their major and
The students candidly admitted tbat they and
their room-marcs and friends seldom read or
took an interest in fields other than those directly connected with their academic majors.
Science snideries were said
odors six days a week, staunchly refusing ti
it themselves in, for instance, an or poli
Education majors were said to care for nothing but classroom techniques and the Journal of
Secondary Education, ignoring Theatre Ant
Monthly and the latest advances in killing cants of distilled water
coupled with the usual X-ray exposure.
It appeared from this impromptu dass dis-
n that although ostensibly the college curricula are liberal, actually students arc allowing
> become so specialized in their
so hermetically sealed in their own
tiny orbits, that for all practical purposes many
hundreds of us have intellectual blinders on our
eyes—and, to hash the i
as wdl.
If we as college students are to get the most
out of our education—education in the broadest
sc devdop that inquisitive urge to
a every topic. We must fight
against the powerful urge to become the one-
track individuals who bum out in
through lack of perspective; the one-track individuals who bring all of the world's intolerance,
bigotry, and social friction; the one-track individuals who die leaving the world  "half un-
is officially called a "liberal arts cortege." It is only by sampling and dabbling that
we shall become, as is intended, truly educated.
Adolph it to some extent right when he says
that "six months in a labor camp are worth a
year of intellectual wort."—A college student's
brains are blown out just as easily as thole of
a trench digger!
Only about one hundred thousand people annually participate in the Alaskan guesting con-
teit concerning the day and hour when the Tenant RirerJce is going to break up. Bt
hundred million people the world over i
daily participate in tbe guesting contest cone
big when the great European cauldron it g<
to stop over.
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►San Mateo J. C.
Breaks Record
:|ln Close Race'
Wind Blasts Chance to Break
Records as Trojans Win Relays
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Stanford Follows 6 Points Behind
Southern Cal's Total Score of 56.9
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